Gifford buoyed by Sandown's cover story

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Sandown Park will today deploy the covers that saved Cheltenham's New Year fixture in a bid to ensure that the Tolworth Hurdle card goes ahead tomorrow. A milder window of weather renewed optimism for the meeting yesterday and nobody was more delighted by the news than Nick Gifford.

Not only does Gifford handle the obvious big-race favourite, in Dee Ee Williams, he is also targeting the meeting for the comeback run of Killaghy Castle. A leading novice chaser two seasons ago, Killaghy Castle has not run since sustaining a tendon injury in April 2006 but is an intended starter in